CDI researchers and collaborators capture motion data through various methods that may include thermal imaging, high-speed videography, and tracking of markers made from lights or electronic sensors. We can study the movements of dancers, athletes, and other things moving. Using special software, we analyze the movements and re-interpret them for different purposes, such as choreography, coaching, physical and occupational therapy, and animation for movies, video games, courseware, and mobile phone applications.

We use the process of rapid prototyping to develop and refine ideas by bringing them from pencil sketches to 2D computer images, to 3D computer models, to outputs as sculptural forms. Using modeling software and 3D printers, we can create prototypes for objects such as medical instruments, machine parts, furnishings, toys and memorabilia.